***URGENT CALL TO ACTION ON LSC FUNDING***
Please take a few minutes today (June 9, 2015) to call your Senators and urge them to reach out to Chairman Shelby and Ranking Minority member Mikulski and urge them to increase LSC funding in the Senate's Appropriations Subcommittee for Commerce, Justice, Science and Related Agencies. Download: LSC Fact Sheet FY16 Senate.pdf

Call your representative and senators now!
If we don’t raise the debt ceiling by Aug. 2, for the first time in our history, the United States will default on its debts and will be unable to pay our bills.
Congress has raised the debt ceiling scores of time, including 10 times over the last decade, under both Democratic and Republican leadership.

BREAKING: Reports say the president just offered to cut Social Security benefits, if Republicans agree not to let the U.S. default on its debts.1
It's his offering to the out-of-control Republicans, who are threatening to crash the economy in order to ram through savage cuts to crucial government programs.

Our country is at a crossroads, and the budget choices Congress makes this summer will shape the rest of our lives. Do we want a nation and a society that
Cuts taxes for the wealthiest families and corporations?
Bails out Wall Street and lets Main Street suffer?
Sharply reduces Medicaid, Medicare, and social programs?
Continues high levels of war spending.